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The Times HeraldSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:11:19 -040060LOWER PROVIDENCE >> Runners took off on a tear Saturday morning at the Lower Providence Fire Department in the seventh annual "On Your Marc" 5K race. The event, which also includes a 2-mile walk, is held in honor of Staff Sgt. Marc J. Small, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2009. The course wound through Eagleville Park and Lower Providence Township.]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 15:13:41 -0400201508012210222015-08-01T15:13:41-04:002015-08-01T22:10:22-04:00NORRISTOWN >> The Montgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) is now reaching out to disadvantaged youths in much the same way it's been helping adults grab their shot at the American Dream for the past 50 years.

"We felt the need to start youth programs so we could get these kids before they got to a certain level and help them better themselves and want to go to school and learn so we wouldn't see them when they became adults," said OIC Executive Director Denise Ashe.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:15:09 -0400201508012205262015-08-01T17:15:09-04:002015-08-01T22:05:26-04:00Beer has been known to bring people together.

The impetus for serious discussions.

"You can only watch three movies for the rest of your life and they can't be 'The Godfather' or 'Goodfellas.' You have one minute to decide."

The antiseptic to the sting of another Philadelphia sports heartbreak.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:18:55 -0400201508012116212015-08-01T16:18:55-04:002015-08-01T21:16:21-04:00Pennsylvania's imperfect education funding system has shorted some school districts more than $1 billion, one lawmaker says.

The state, says Rep. David Parker, R-Monroe, has underfunded 180 districts because of a controversial "hold harmless" funding formula, which maintains school districts are guaranteed to receive no less state funding than the year before.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:06:44 -0400201508012106442015-08-01T21:06:44-04:002015-08-01T21:06:44-04:00NORRISTOWN >> Registration has begun the fall season of classes at the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library's computer lab. This will be the library's 12th year offering computer classes to the Norristown and greater Montgomery County area.

Classes cover a diverse set of topics, including computer fundamentals, Microsoft Office, the Internet, and the Cloud.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:46:32 -0400201508012046322015-08-01T20:46:32-04:002015-08-01T20:46:32-04:00HARRISBURG >> For the third time in a dozen years, counties and nonprofit agencies that make up Pennsylvania's social services safety net are girding to pay the price of partisan deadlock in Harrisburg.

They will borrow, burrow into reserves and perhaps even beg private donors for money in an effort to keep their doors open and services available to abused women and children, the disabled, addicts and people too mentally ill to function on their own.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:36:15 -0400201508012036152015-08-01T20:36:15-04:002015-08-01T20:36:15-04:00PLYMOUTH >> The weather's hot, but the bats are hotter for Upper Providence 10/11 Little League in the PA state tournament.

The team threw up 10 runs in their opener Friday night, and came up with another 12 the next afternoon in its 12-5 win over Avon Grove.

"This is how this team plays," UP coach Mike Zielinski said.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 18:45:23 -0400201508011845232015-08-01T18:45:23-04:002015-08-01T18:45:23-04:00UPPER MERION >> The man police say attempted to escape in a taxi after robbing the PNC Bank on East DeKalb Pike has been identified as Shafic Woniewala of Philadelphia.

The robbery took place at 3:57 p.m. Thursday, when, police allege, Woniewala entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding money and implying that he had a weapon, although no weapon was displayed.

Still, with roughly 11 new starters, including the quarterback, it sure looks like Kelly is in a crazy-fast hurry to make the Eagles better. After all, the team is 20-13 the last two seasons.

Basically there were just five changes in the starting lineup the year after Kelly's first season ended with a playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:19:29 -0400201508011719292015-08-01T17:19:29-04:002015-08-01T17:19:29-04:00PHILADELPHIA >> Chip Kelly turned over every rock before coming to the realization his best shot to make the Eagles better this year was to upgrade the quarterback position.

In Kelly's mind, going from good to great wasn't going to happen with Nick Foles, so he traded the veteran and a couple of draft picks to the St.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:06:38 -0400201508011706382015-08-01T17:06:38-04:002015-08-01T17:06:38-04:00CHESTER >> Two years after he left Philadelphia without making a shadow of an impact, Oka Nikolov loomed large at PPL Park Friday.

It's one of those peculiarities of the interconnected soccer world that links a Macedonian goalkeeper, a Swiss midfielder and the ambitions of an American club.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:24:18 -0400201508011624182015-08-01T16:24:18-04:002015-08-01T16:24:18-04:00PHILADELPHIA >> Even though they would lose Cole Hamels, and with it one more hunk of their 2008 soul, the Phillies Friday were within an hour of being able to claim trade-deadline victory. By then, all Ruben Amaro had to do was muffle his cell phone and his last urge to knock something down.

Since the offseason, he'd been collecting young pitching.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 15:44:32 -0400201508011544322015-08-01T15:44:32-04:002015-08-01T15:44:32-04:00Every outfit in the NFC East, not just the Eagles, has a guy who predicted great things for his team this season.

In the case of big bucks free-agent acquisition Byron Maxwell, it was a guarantee the Eagles would win the Super Bowl.

"It's better than saying, 'I guarantee we're not going to be in the Super Bowl,'" Eagles head coach Chip Kelly surmised.

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 15:43:51 -0400201508011543512015-08-01T15:43:51-04:002015-08-01T15:43:51-04:00Sestak has a plan to fill all of Pa.'s holes

Living in Pennsylvania, we are used to potholes. They are an ever-present pain in the Keystone state; seemingly more here than anywhere else. My husband and I recently drove to Florida and you could tell the minute you left Pennsylvania because the roads were so much cleaner and smoother.